Center for
Regenerative Medicine

Outline of the research project

Periodontitis and oral cancer causing bone loss and bone weakening have been increasing especially among elderly people. It is, however, very difficult for the aged to reconstruct the osseous tissue in the oral area because the tooth loss causes an irreversible rapid bone atrophy and high risk bacterial infection due to less ductility of the epithelium tissue. In this project, we aim to establish the reconstruction system mainly working on three following themes.